hvc_console: Change an mb() to smp_mb() and add some comments
I remember some history on this barrier. There was a race between open via /dev/console and the tty being fully setup. Its also why there is a temporary variable and the global is assigned at the end of the function. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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